Khalid Jawed, novelist, short story writer and poet, was born in 1963 in Bareilly, where he grew by healthy social conventions and vital values. After studying Philosophy and Literature, he started his university career at Rohail Khand University where he taught Philosophy for four years. Now-a-days, he has been teaching as an Associate Professor of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
Equipped with an exceptional ability to think of fresh frameworks for his stories and novels, he tends to cultivate a novelty of approach towards his themes and language. Distinct by virtue of freshness and unpredictability, sensitivity towards contemporary anxiety and concerns, strenuous artistic control, his stories tenaciously resist a linear and orderly progression. Quite frequently, philosophical preoccupations get into the texture of his novels and stories, demanding active participation from the readers, frank and uninhibited, his creativity prefers not to be bridled by conventional rules of writing fiction, and sound dull and formulaic. His major works, collections of stories and novels respectively, include 𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘯 (2000), 𝘈𝘬𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘪 𝘋𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘵(2007), 𝘛𝘢𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘩 𝘬𝘪 𝘋𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘩𝘢𝘳 (2008) — collections of stories, and 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘵 𝘬𝘪 𝘒𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘣 (The Book of Death) - 2011 and 𝘕𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘵 𝘒𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘢 (The Paradise of Food) - 2014 — novels. The story entitled “𝘉𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘺 𝘔𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘮 𝘔𝘦𝘪𝘯” won for him the 𝘒𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘢 𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘥. Khalid Jawed also has to his credit several academic books, including 𝘎𝘢𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘭 𝘎𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘻: 𝘍𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘩𝘴𝘪𝘺𝘢𝘵 (2010) and 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘯 𝘒𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢: 𝘍𝘶𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘳 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘬𝘩𝘴𝘪𝘺𝘢𝘵 (2011).